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ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law
Summaries by the national bar association of rulings on disability issues.
ADA Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities (ADAAG)
Contains scoping and technical requirements for accessibility to buildings and facilities by individuals with disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990.
ADA-Checklist for Readily Achievable Barrier Removal
A checklist to help identify accessibility problems and solutions in existing facilities in order to meet your obligations under the ADA. However, it does not attempt to illustrate all possible barriers or propose all possible barrier removal solutions.
DBTAC Great Lakes ADA Center
Provides information, materials, technical assistance and training on the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). Topics addressed includes the non-discrimination requirements in employment, the obligations of state and local governments and business to ensure that programs, services and activities are readily accessible to and useable by people with disabilities.
ADA Handbook for Small Businesses
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)’s online manual about disabilities.
ADA Homepage
Provides information for businesses including the Americans with Disabilities Act, business briefs, design standards, and regulations.
The ADA: Your
Responsibilities as an Employer
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Fact sheet covers the basic facts about which employers are covered, which employment activities are covered, and what the responsibilities of employers involve.
ADA Watch
A project of the National Coalition for Disability Rights (NCDR), a nonprofit alliance of hundreds of disability, civil rights, and social justice organizations united to defend and strengthen disability rights.
American Staffing Association (ASA)
ASA promotes the interests of the industry through legal and legislative advocacy, public relations, education, and the establishment of high standards of ethical conduct.
Better Interviews for People with Disabilities
The answer for the question as an employer: “Can HR legally ask the questions that applicants with disabilities want to be asked?” The ground rules and how to apply the rules.
Code of practice on managing disability in the workplace
Guides employers to adopt a positive strategy in managing disability-related issues in the workplace.
Compensation, Benefits, & Rewards
Provides the source for the latest trends and tools on workforce and HR management, recruitment, retention, employment law, and human resource products and services.
Compliance Assistance - Family and Medical Leave Act
Contains various compliance assistance materials, FAQ, and general information about wage and hour division.
Disability Discrimination
Information about Title I of the ADA, which provides private employers, state and local governments, employment agencies and labor unions from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, hiring, firing, advancement, compensation, job training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment.
Disabilityinfo.gov
DisabilityInfo.gov is the federal government's one-stop web site for information of interest to people with disabilities, their families, employers, service providers and many others.
Disability Related Language
The words and phrases that are preferred show respect for the dignity of people with disabilities. Some describe this as "people-first" language where the individual is recognized as a person first, then further defined in terms of their characteristic, disability, or functional limitation. This webpage discusses about disability related language.
disABLEDperson, Inc.
Employers can learn about legal issues regarding Americans with disabilities.
Discrimination Complaint - Fair Employment
This form is used to file all discrimination complaints, except Housing and Public Accommodation or Amusement.
Do’s
and Don’ts for Supervisors
Managers must confront their own perceptions of what it means to have a disability and the extent to which workers with disabilities can and should be an integral part of the work environment.
Emergency Evacuation Procedure Plan
A checklist designed to assist you and your employees prepare an evacuation plan in case of an emergency.
Employee Eligibility and the FMLA
Learn when an employee is and isn’t FMLA eligible from recent court decisions that have shed light on.
Employment Laws: Disability & Discrimination
There are many federal, state and local laws that affect the American workplace, and it is important for employers to know where to go for help in understanding their responsibilities under these laws.
Employment Tax Credits
This is a good website to learn all you need to know about tax credit programs
to help reduce Federal and State Tax Liability.
Equal Rights Division
What employers need to know about the types of public works projects covered by state prevailing wage laws, how prevailing wage rates are set and information on rates recently set for projects.
Exclusion of Deaf Job Applicants Under ADA
Teaches employers the way to carefully examine any broad qualification standards for particular jobs and to individually evaluate workers’ abilities to perform their jobs.
Fair Employment
Information about Declaration of policy under Wisconsin legislature.
Fair Employment Decision
An administrative law judge (ALJ) for the Equal Rights Division of the Department of Workforce Development issued a decision in this case.
Family and Medical Leave
Responsibilities as employers to provide leave for employees for birth, adoption, serious illness or a family member or the employee's own serious illness.
Fidelity Bonding Program
Access free business insurance policies that protect the employer in case of any loss of money or property due to employee dishonesty. It is like a "guarantee" to the employer that the person hired will be an honest worker.
Focus
on Ability
Interviewing applicants with disabilities. The job interview plays a critical role in the hiring process, allowing them the opportunity to identify the individual who possesses the best mix of knowledge, skills and abilities for the position available. The information may assist employers in ensuring maximum benefit from an interview when the person being interviewed happens to have a disability.
General considerations
General considerations about people with disabilities.
Getting Corporations Ready to Recruit Workers with Disabilities
The article discusses the strategies used by Wells Fargo for the hiring, advancing, and retaining of people with disabilities in the workplace. Ways to overcome barriers to the employment of people with disabilities, particularly the prejudice that results from stereotypes, are discussed.
Great Lakes ADA Center (DBTAC)
The DBTAC hosts a list of general resources for additional information about people with disabilities.
Guidelines for Applications, Interviews, Exams and Hiring
Employment checklist for hiring persons with disabilities/hiring people with disabilities: commonly asked questions and resources.
Hidden Disability
Presents information related to the training of employees with learning disabilities. According to the Americans with Disabilities Act, employees with learning disabilities do not have to disclose that they have a disability and cannot be asked directly by the employer.
Workplace learning and performance professionals should be prepared to judge an employee's learning style and make the necessary accommodations.
Hire Guide
A rapidly growing website containing hundreds of pages of information related to Human Resources. Their mission is to provide: links to other websites in the HR field; free web-based computer programs for HR professionals and students; and guides to HR related topics.
HR Management
Provides human resources management information including performance management, performance appraisals, employee performance reviews, and relocation.
Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
JAN is a free consulting service designed to increase the employability of people with disabilities by providing individualized worksite accommodations solutions, providing technical assistance regarding the ADA and other disability related legislation, and educating callers about self-employment options.
Labor Law Clinics
Offers educational seminars, which are open to the public and feature DWD staff explaining many of the laws and rules the agency administers.
Labor Standards
For child labor, minimum wage, overtime, notification of business closings and mass layoffs, unpaid wage claims, private employment agencies and work on state or municipal construction projects.
Labor, United States Department of, Office of Disability Employment Policy
Collaboration between employers and State and local agencies to increase awareness of the benefits of hiring people with disabilities, and to facilitate the use of effective strategies to expand access to training, education, employment supports, assistive technology, integrated employment, entrepreneurial development, and small-business opportunities.
Laws, Regulations and Interpretations
Provides a comprehensive and easy to use resource for current OSHA standards and enforcement-related information. Ongoing maintenance is designed to provide the most up-to-date OSHA standards and interpretations of employee safety and health issues, while reducing the duplication of information and removing outdated guidance."
Legal Insight
Provides human resources legal information including employment law, labor law, employment legislation, OSHA rules, disability, discrimination, and employee leave.
Liability
for Unfounded "Fear Firing" Under the ADA
Addresses changes to employment law regarding an ex-employer’s obligation to provide a reference, especially where the prior employee could endanger others. (Negligent Reference wlo)
Managing Disability in the Workplace
Contains information based on the principle underpinning international instruments and initiatives designed to promote the safe and healthy employment of all persons with disabilities.
Milt Wright & Associates, Inc.
A publishing, training and consulting firm focusing on job creation, job retention and employment resources. They offer innovative job development, job retention and business outreach resources and training. For employers, they specialize in the design and implementation of disability management return to work programs, workers’ compensation cost containment strategies, transitional employment, and organizational process improvement.
The Mobility Pages
This site give employees hint how to deal with issues such as the lack of affordable, reliable, and available transportation is one of the primary obstacles low income workers face.
Myths,
Misconceptions, & Realities of Disability
Quizzes: True and False.
National ADA Centers Technical Assistance Program
Provides training, information, and technical assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to businesses, consumers, schools, and government agencies.
National Employment Lawyers Association
The National Employment Lawyers Association advocates for employee rights and workplace fairness while promoting the highest standards of professionalism, ethics and judicial integrity. Though this is a site for lawyers, it provides assistance and support for employers to learn from employment cases, links, affirmative action facts, disability rights.
National Organization on Disability (N.O.D.)
The National Organization on Disability (N.O.D.) works with business leaders, corporations, associations, and schools to improve work opportunities for Americans with disabilities, who are employed at dramatically lower rates than the non-disabled. N.O.D. also helps employers explore disability as a workplace diversity issue, and disability-related marketing. This web site provides you with the latest in disability-related news, information and resources.
Opening Doors to All
Candidates
Tips for ensuring access for applicants with disabilities. Ensuring that all qualified individuals can participate in the process is a key to achieving this goal. By examining their hiring procedures and implementing some simple steps, employers can widen their pool of potential talent and ensure that they do not miss out when the best person for the job happens to have a disability.
Policies and Regulations
Provides information about health care, laws and regulations, and policies and guidelines that
are useful for employers to know.
Preventive steps can curb workplace
Advice to employers on preventing workplace violence. Protection of employees with mental disability from illegal firing under the Americans with Disabilities Act; Necessity of assessment by a qualified mental health professional; Training of supervisors and managers to recognize early warning signs of a potentially violent employee.
Qualify and Apply
Use this Benefit Eligibility Screening Tool to help identify all the different Social Security programs. Find out whether your employee can get Social Security Disability Benefits, and if so, how to apply for it.
Recruitment and Retention Plan
Delineates strategy to recruit and hire a diverse and highly qualified workforce from sources external and internal to the government, as well as their commitment to grow and develop the dedicated employees already on-board.
Return-to-Work Policy Challenged
Useful advice for employers when considering the return to work of employees on medical leaves of absence.
Reasonable accommodation may be required in the event the returning employee is unable to perform all of the job duties of their former position.
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act
Explains accessibility standards for the various technologies covered by the law. These standards have been folded into the Federal government's procurement regulations.
Social Security Administration (SSA)
Official website of the Social Security Administration. Helps employers learn about Social Security's work incentives program for people with disabilities.
Tax Credits and Deduction Incentives for Employers
Explains tax credits and deductions available to businesses that employ and/or accommodate individuals with disabilities.
Topical Index of Statutes, Regulations, Case Law, and Articles
Contains federal statutes and regulations organized by subject and include court case opinions and legal articles that help interpret federal disability-related laws. This index is regularly updated; however, it is not an exhaustive resource. Some opinions expressed in the court cases are only binding in particular areas of the country.
Training
Disability Law Resource Project (DLRP) provides training to entities with compliance obligations under the law, as well as to those people with disabilities and advocates who want to learn more about their rights.
Training & Public Education
World Institute on Disability gives information about training and public education to promote the civil rights and the full societal inclusion of people with disabilities.
Trainings
The Great Lakes ADA and Accessible IT Center provides trainings with up-to-date information on the ADA and its implementation tailored to meet specific customer needs. In addition, the Center expanded its role to conduct outreach, technical assistance and trainings to encourage the incorporation of Accessible Information Technology in K-12 and post secondary school settings.
Unemployment Insurance
This information tells what you need to know about Unemployment Insurance, laws, benefits, employer wage reporting, and Labor Law Clinics.
U.S. Department of Justice (Office of the Inspector General)
Provides information for businesses of all sizes about ADA standards for accessible design, tax credits, and other documents to meet ADA requirements.
U.S. Department of Labor. Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
OSHA is the main federal agency charged with the enforcement of safety and health legislation.
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Provides oversight and coordination of all federal equal employment opportunity regulations, practices, and policies.
What You’re Allowed to Do Under the FMLA
Instituting certain precautions helps to effectively verify and respond promptly to requests, and should help to prevent FMLA violation claims.
Windmills Training Program
A training program to employers at no cost to help their staff develop an increased awareness of the role that attitudes play regarding the employment of persons with disabilities and other people of diversity.
Wisconsin Council of Safety
Provides training, publications, and consultation services on safety related issues including workers compensation and return-to-work programming.
Wisconsin department of workforce development (DWD)
DWD offers a wide variety of employment programs and services, accessible at the state's Job Centers including: securing jobs for the disabled, assisting former welfare recipients to transition to work, linking youth with jobs of tomorrow, protecting and enforcing worker’s rights, processing unemployment claims and ensuring worker’s compensation claims are paid in accordance with the law.
Wisconsin Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR)
Provides comprehensive employment, training, and placement services for individuals with disabilities. They are also an excellent source of disability related information and consultation.
Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission
An independent administrative agency which decides appeals in cases involving Unemployment Insurance, Worker's Compensation, and Equal Rights.
Wisconsin New Hire Reporting
Provides new hire reporting information according to Wisconsin state law.
Wisconsin’s WORKnet
A great site to find occupational information for Wisconsin. Everything from job postings, most job openings, wage comparison tools, business tools, youth tools, and many other things such as hot Wisconsin jobs.
Worker's Compensation
Provides information on specific requirements for worker's compensation and how to obtain worker's compensation insurance or become self-insured.
Workplace Laws
During the last few years, employees have been exposed to many new laws, regulations, and acronyms. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) impact upon the workplace. These are different laws enacted at different times with different purposes, and are not totally uniform.
WorldatWork
World at Work is a not-for-profit professional association dedicated to knowledge leadership in total rewards, compensation, benefits, and work-life. They focus on human resources disciplines associated with attracting, motivating and retaining employees.
Write Your FMLA Leave Policies Carefully
FMLA and sick leave/vacation leave intersect.
